| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 173 pages .) |
| Contents |
Cover; Elite Girls' Schooling, Social Class and Sexualised Popular Culture; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; 1 Beholden to no one: elite schoolgirls in the 21st century; 2 'Normative' femininities: from romance and domesticity to raunch and visibility?; 3 (Re)searching for girls' resistance; 4 Becoming 'lady bountiful': elite schooling, social class and girl citizenship; 5 'Hey skank face, you can't dress properly!': revisiting sexuality and social class; 6 'She's doing it for herself ': negotiating sexualised popular culture |
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7 Conclusions: 'elite' schoolgirls, normative femininities/sexualities and resistanceReferences; Index |
| Summary |
Young women's identities are an issue of public and academic interest across a number of western nations at the present time. This book explores how young women attending an elite school for girls understand and construct 'empowerment'. It investigates the extent to which, and the ways in which, their constructions of empowerment and identity work to overturn, or resist, key regulations and normative expectations for girls in post-feminist, hyper-sexualised cultural contexts. The book provides a succinct overview of feminist theorisations of normative femininities in young women's liv |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Girls -- Education -- Social aspects
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Elite (Social sciences) -- Education -- Social aspects
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Feminism and education.
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Sex differences in education.
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Sex in popular culture.
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Feminism and education
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Sex differences in education
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Sex in popular culture
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
1136195874 |
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9781136195877 |
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9781136195884 |
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1136195882 |
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9780203085103 |
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0203085108 |
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